[New-Poetry] Re: Li-Young Lee packs 'em in

[David Baratier]

Bob--
 
I understood your point ages ago. 
 
In the late eighties, I read for the AIDS quilt which was brought to the New York State Museum in Albany. Many "poets," including one very famous one, read poems that were against AIDS. "AIDS is bad," "friends died," "boo for AIDS," "where is money for testing," I got to wear this rubber thing," etcetera. And people cheered. But the superior writers (ie poets) used some other metaphor with no stated connection, one was about a medicine ball.
 
Why does someone have to prove to you that Li is a good poet, and not due to content? In fact, his subject matter is the opposite of what you want to hear, it gets tedious, the first two collections and part of the third are "Dead Dad" books. But he is the best known and living narrative "Dead Dad" writer there is. 
 


Be well

David Baratier, Editor

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